It's a bad idea to have macro functions that reference variables more than once, as the arguments could have side effects. Turn BCC() into a static inlined function instead. While we're at it, make it return a void * to discourage anyone from dereferencing it as-is. Reported-and-acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifspdu.h | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h b/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h index 291d735..de3aa28 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h +++ b/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h @@ -428,9 +428,12 @@ struct smb_hdr { __u8 WordCount; } __attribute__((packed)); -/* given a pointer to an smb_hdr retrieve a char pointer to the byte count */ -#define BCC(smb_var) ((unsigned char *)(smb_var) + sizeof(struct smb_hdr) + \ - (2 * (smb_var)->WordCount)) +/* given a pointer to an smb_hdr, retrieve a void pointer to the ByteCount */ +static inline void * +BCC(struct smb_hdr *smb) +{ + return (void *)smb + sizeof(*smb) + 2 * smb->WordCount; +} /* given a pointer to an smb_hdr retrieve the pointer to the byte area */ #define pByteArea(smb_var) (BCC(smb_var) + 2) -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html